Certain Swedish schools add eSports classes

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Three high schools in Sweden will be featuring eSports as a class in the coming semester. Pupils will be able to practice and learn games such as Dota and Counter-Strike, to name a few.
Certain schools in Sweden will now be supporting eSports for the upcoming semester. Three high schools (one in Karlstad, one in Ovanåker and one in Stockholm) will be featuring eSports as a subject in their classes. Neither school will be providing a full blown eSports program but outside of the mandatory subjects such as math and language there will be subjects such as eSports, Dota and Counter-Strike offered for certain alignments.

The eSports subjects will be treated like regular athletic oriented ones, where the students get access to rooms and areas designated for practice and similar. There will also be school teams within the different games, aiming to compete at tournaments such as Dreamhack. Known players and personalities will be invited to give guest lectures. At the school of Voxnadalen located in Ovenåker, students studying events will also get to host a larger tournament as their end project for the third year. A few hours a week would be committed to eSports in the schedule.

"The school system must get better in general in educating people about the contemporary society and this is good evidence of that very fact", says Ibrahim Khalifa in a press message. Khalifa is Chairman of the Education and Employment Board in Sigtuna county, located in Stockholm. Magnus Alehed, principal of the school in Karlstad, tells Swedish media Aftonbladet how "there have been some frowning noses and some wondering why they get to play computer games during school hours, but we aim to kill the myth that it has to be a bad thing. Furthermore, it is about showing respect to this group of pupils."

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Personally, I think this is pretty cool but a part of me is against implementing this.

Opinion?

 

[Aomine Daiki]

I live in sweden and havent heard any of this lmao

But yeah, It would be fun but at the same time, gaming in school? Its weird...nah, id say im against it z.z

 

[Trying to hide the truth]

I live in sweden and havent heard any of this lmao

But yeah, It would be fun but at the same time, gaming in school? Its weird...nah, id say im against it z.z

The same could be said for sports in general. Gym classes/weight lifting

 

[System001]

This is incredibly stupid...
Figures it'd be Sweden that goes down this road first.

 

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The same could be said for sports in general. Gym classes/weight lifting

I think that gym classes are actually necessary and I've never heard of weight lifting at a school.

 

[Frankenstein]

I see great value in the addition of esports classes in schools

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[Trying to hide the truth]

I think that gym classes are actually necessary and I've never heard of weight lifting at a school.

In the high school I went to we had weight lifting.

 

[PT1990]

Who cares? That country is dying either way. There is a cancer in their society that will destroy it sooner or later.

 

[Uzumaki Macho]

What's wrong with it?